IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

RSA No.275/2025

Date of Decision: 15th December, 2025.

Onkar Sharma and Anr. .....Appellants

Versus .

NHAI and Anr. …..Respondents

Coram

The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Bipin Chander Negi, Judge.

W hether approved for reporting?1

For the Appellants: Mr. Varun Rana, Advocate.

For the Respondents: Ms. Shrey a Chauhan, Advocate.

Bipin Chander Negi, Judge (oral).

The appellant, by filing this appeal under section 100 of

the Code of Civil Procedure (for short, CPC), has assailed the judgment and decree dated 21.07.2025, passed by the learned Additional District Judge, Sunder Nagar , District Mandi, HP in Civil App eal No.46 of 2023, affirming the judgment and decree dated 03.06.2023, passed by the learned Senior Civil Judge, Court No.1, Sunder Nagar, District Mandi, HP, in Civil Suit No.97

of 2019.

2. The facts in the present case are that the appellants were the plaintiffs before the learned trial Court and they instituted a suit for recovery of damages amounting to ₹25,00,000/- along with interest against the present respondents, who were defendants before the learned trial Court. The case of the appellants, in brief, was that they were the owners of land compri